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五拜硷,號一十月二十英沿香 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936.

LONDON GREETS

RIVAL FACTIONS

DEMONSTRATE

THEIR

LOYALTY

Throng Sings Anthem Outside Duke of York's Residence

DOWNING STREET MOB SHOUTS

“WE WANT EDWARD

LOYAL-DEMONSTRATIONS

LONDON, DEC. 11. WERE__WITNESSED_IN_THE WEST END WHEN THE DUKE OF YORK RETURNED TO HIS PIC- CADILLY HOME LATE LAST NIGHT.

LARGE CROWDS COMPLETELY BLOCKED THE ROADWAY AND GREETED THE PRINCE WITH ROUNDS OF CHEERS. THE MAN WHO WILL BE KING TO-MORROW GRAVELY SALUTED THE CROWD BY RAISING HIS HAT SEVERAL TIMES.

AFTER THE DUKE OF YORK HAD ENTERED THE HOUSE THE CROWD SANG THE NATIO NAL ANTHEM.

EVERY ROAD LEADING TO PICCADILLY WAS BLOCKED WITH CARS, TAXIS AND BUSES, WHILE THE DENSE CROWD OUTSIDE THE NEW KING'S HOME KEPT UP CONTINUOUS SHOUTS OF "WE WANT ALBERT," AND "LONG LIVE THE KING,” SAYS REUTER.

Meanwhile, in Downing Street, police were dispers- ing a crowd, hostile to the Prime Minister and led by Fascists, who shouted "We want Edward,”. "We want Baldwin dead or alive," "Down with Baldwin," "We want the workers' king," "Put it to the vote."

The crowd was 2,000 strong in Downing street, with a compact group of 150 men in the van, but it was broken up.

Singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Rule Britannia", the marchers reformed in the Mall and push- ed through Admiralty Arch, stretching into lower Re- gent Street. It rapidly increased in size, the United Press adds.

It is reported that the Independent Labour Party—the extreme, Leftist element, which is more veelferous thon influential-hns decided 10 Introduce

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amendment Abdication Bill, demanding a

the

Re-

public.

Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, the Independent M.P., has forecast a

KING WILL TALK TO EMPIRE

future "Edwardian Party," saying BROADCASTS FROM the people will drink a toast to "Edward-King Across the Waters."

Dominions' Assent However, the Dominions are united in accepting the abdication. In the House of Lords, Lord Halifax this afternoon stated that Canada, Aus- tralla, New Zealand and South Africa had already assented to the necessary logislation, and that the Irish Free State will probably follow auit.

:

LONDON TO-NIGHT

WHOLE WORLD. WILL HEAR

London, Dec. 10. The B.B.C. to-day announces that King Edward will broad-

Publle sentiment has apparently cast to the Empire as soon finally rallied to the Government the Abdication legislation despite the personal popularity of

King Edward.

passed.

A crowd of at least ten thousand swarned in front of Buckingham to-morrow

over

as

is

wave-

KING MAY

NEVER SEE ENGLAND AGAIN

EARLY MARRIAGE NOT IMPOSSIBLE

TO LIVE ON CONTINENT

London, Dec, 10.

King Edward sat hunched in a deep armchair in his country re- sidence while the fateful words were being read Parliament--twenty-

miles away, stripping him of

and everything that

the

goes

therewith.

His brothers, the Duke of York and the Duke of Gloucester, visited him earlier in the afternoon, but dis- played sympathetic consideration by leaving the abdicating monarch to lus own fateful thoughts. They departed less than half. an hour before Mr. to the House of Commons. Baldwin presented. Edward's message

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EMPIRE RALLIES

TO HER PRINCES

The world watches to-day as Edward VIII, on the threal- ald of Coronation,, steps, down from the throne and his brother, the Duke of York, accepts the tremendous responsi- bility of ruling in his atead. Above are the four sons of the late King George, whose illustrious name, the new monarch will bear when he is proclaimed King. Left, King Ed- ward; right centre, King George VI and his Queen Eliza-. beth, top inact, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; lower

inact, the Duke and Duchess of Kent.

EMPIRE TEMPLE

IS UNSHAKEN But Urged to Rally To New Sovereign

London, Dec. 11.

"The price of renunciation astounds the world,” declares the Daily Telegraph to-day, mourning the abdication of His Majesty King Edward VIII after only nine months of rule.

The Worlds

Master Tyre

KING

'MR. WINDSOR' GOING ABROAD

:

George VI To Be Proclaimed at Once

London, Dec. 10.

King Edward VIII will sign the Abdication Bill to- morrow night and will leave the country immediately. It is understood that he will renounce all his titles and be known as Mr. Windsor, but the new King may confer a dukedom on him.

The Accession Council will meet on Saturday morning and the Duke of York will be proclaimed King in the afternoon. It is understood that he will take the title of George VI, which is His Fourth and last Christian name.

No decision has yet been reached regarding the title that King Edward will take, and nothing has yet been decided regarding financos. The revenues from the -Duchies-of-Lancaster-and-Cornwall-will-not-be-available-

to him but will pass to the new King. The Government may ask Parliament to make him an annual grant, but he may intimate that his private resources are adequate,

WHOLE EMPIRE MOURNS

ABDICATION FELT AS TRAGEDY

KING'S WISHES RESPECTED

London, Dec. 10. News of King Edward's ab- dication was received with deep sorrow throughout the Empire,

At the suggestion 'of Major Attlee, the House of Commons adjourned until 6 p.m.

when the Abdication Bill was introduced. It will pass through all stages to-morrow. When the Bill has passed through both Houses the King will give his assent to it-liks last"act us King.

Both houses will meet on Satur- day afternoon for the swearing-in, which will continue on Monday, when Parlament will receive D message from the new King and move the Address-in-Reply.

The accession meeting of the Privy Council will take place

SL James's Palace on Saturday morning and the proclamation of the... new King will follow immediately.—Reu-- ter.

Parliamentary Routine

renounced the Throne, for himself King Edward VIII has voluntarily and his heirs, and a vast Empiro has

In Capetown real sorrow and been plunged "into mourning for a sympathy is perhaps the domin- great monarch lost. The Abdica ant note of the reaction, al-on Bill is before Parliament. though the new King is certain to have a hearty welcome..

In Oltawa the regal constitution and human qualities of the King are considered to have made the abdica- tion nothing short of a tragedy for

eople of Canada,

in our hearts that the King had acte

the

mit wish god otherwise," stated

The King's message to Parlia- ment, read to a packed House of Commons, and later to an equally crowded House of Lorda, was dell- vered amid a tense silence, Men

the grief they felt.

and women made no attempt to hide

.

House Reassembles

· London, Dec. 10. Following a brief recess, the House of Commons reassembled.

The House of Commons was still packed with a tense throng when the House resumed at 6.p.m. G.M.T.

Major Attlee, leader of the Parlia entary Labour Party, rose imme diately after the resumption amid

cordial cheers.

the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Joseph A. Lyons) when announcing the abdication at Canberra. "With deep sadness in our hearts we bid farewell to King Edward- and turn thoughts to the new King, who is also a man we know and love."

"It is one of the saddest days in

of the British People, the history declared the New Zealand Prime Minister

(Mr. Savage). He added that the loyalty of New Zealand to the Crown was as strong and endur- He said that the occasion did not ing is over.

call for long and eloquent speeches. In Berlin the abdication is regard. They had heard the message from ed as entirely en internal affair and the King with profound concert therefore officials refrain from com- The whole country had received the ment.

nows with deep sorrow, and the Rome newspapers express regret King's subjects would feel a sense of and describe the Duke of York as possessing a severe sense of duly and personal loss.

Major Atlee paid a tribute to the Kink. Authoritative French comment re-

"No British monarch was better to Edward's departure, dezentrier, him as a potentially great Mouurch, but welcomes his successor solution of a problem which had bew gun to alarm the whole of Europe Reuter.

love of ordinary people,

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known to his subjects, both in Great Britain and throughout the Common-

he said.

wealth

"The King, who had won so completely the affections of his people, might have asked them almost anything and they would have given it with both hands. "But there is always something which duty must

Major Allee, was a monarch who had King Edward VIII, continued Once the King leaves England ho

shared the peoples: joys and sorrows may never again set foot on Empire

deny and it will be the abiding grief of thousands who

DUBLIN STATEMENT

In the dark days of war. "We know mother and some of his brothers soil, and will possibly never 'sco, his loved the King that the one thing he asked was a

of his read sympathy with the Dublin, Dec. 10.

suffering, " he said, amid cheers, again after his sorrowing farewell, marriage which seems necessary to his happiness, but Making a statement to-day in

They had all been thinking of some although the Duke of Kent is likely

reference to King Edward's abdica-way of solving the problem, he went His address is expected at 10 p.m. 1o v1.2. him occasionally to maintain

which they judged would be disastrous to the Crown tion, the Premier of the Irish Free on family ties...

State (Mr. do Valera) declared. Palace all night long, singing the lengths GSD, GSC and GSB.

(Friday)

Muit and realm.

"Insofar as the Irish Free Slot we realised the great objection to

Accept Decision Where the King will go is at pre- The address will be recorded and sent a mystery: probably somewhere Lary and unique. The tragedy for the must rally to the King," declares the become effective until Legislation for every course that has been suggest

"King Edward's case stands soll-cover the ground lost. The nation concerned, the abdication will not re-broadcast at 11 per the on the Continent, but not Cannes,

by Parliaed, and hoped that it would not come There are

that purpose is enacted Indications that the Empire, is that the now broken Morning Post. American continent on transmitters Court may bring pressure in regard column might well have been one of

A to abdicaffion“, ho continued." "The ker has issued a notice King, however, has made his deck- GSD, GSC und CSB and at 2 am to the Simpson divorce before, the the statellest pillars of the temple. London Subdued

Speaker The Saturday, also for the American con-

summoning the deputies to attend a slon, and we cannot do otherwise than tinent on the same wavelengths.

scheduled date, April 27, and an early But the temple itself still stands and

Both the monarchy and the Em-meeting of the Dail at 3. p., to-mor-accept Item London, Dec. 10. .'

marriage of the King and Mrs. as we believe, the event will prove it

pire have ben badly shaken but they row for the purpose of consliering, in The wish of

of all his people is that At 8 am. It will be broadcast for Simpson is therefore not impossible, unshakeable.

can and will be restored, declares connection with the proposed abdics, he will, have a long and happy low, London was a subdued elty to- Australia, the Pacific and the Far event, -. It is problematical night, Thousands of men and women East on GSR, GSO, and CSB and at where the couple will reade, but it Heavy Blow Has Fallen. the Tenes and they witte restored sion of King Edward Vir, propation the country has received a severe

will possibly the Riviera, although

"It would be idioto belittle the all the more rapidly because there is for an amendment of the consultation shock from which it will take time to recovery The position of anyone from the sellers and read the news Far East on 'GSH, GSG and GSB

no longer the slightest doubt about and other legislation. Reuters | heaviness "of, thể " blow which has

called upon to succeed to the Throne with grave faces and quietly went

For more choosa Argentine,

sorrowing people,

DOMINIONS ACT

to-day is obviously one of great dim- their ways.

At 2 pan. Saturday the address Nothing is certain with regard to British Empire, It Is fortunate in-

The Dominions have already acted cully it will be broadenst for India and the King titles. Court circles, how deed that a prince so capable and sohio real clash was between with respect to King Edward wished, listen I will be our endeavour to A allence hung over the theatre Ceylon over GSH, GSF and GSB and ever, believe that he may relinquish trustworthy is atihand, to take up the the thoughtlessness of queues, white conversation: in res at 6:18 pm Saturday for Soully all he filles, and received a new royal burden-so-incontinently laid society and the hard-core of fame of Canada, South Africa, Labour colleagues, valced his doo

Lexotic sayan. Daventry memagoodThet Paré si Maqbal fam taurants was subdued as little groupe Africa and the Near East over GST, Dukedom In any event, the Cavent down. For he will have to repair the British tradition of

which is Australia and New (Continued on Page: 6) (KA GSD and GSB Reuter, NISS

RiZealand have sympathy towards, Queen Mary (Continued on. Pared;

hurt which bra besti mazzered and re-

(Continued;

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National Anthem and shouting: "We Want Albert!", "We Want the King!" and singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow."United Press,

Empire Shaken

...engurly@anatched the newspapers' 11 p.m. Saturday for Malaya and the syreported that the King fallon on the British people and the the duty laid upon the stunned and